Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-12-24

Since then it has grown with a growth
that has scarcely parallel, and has
now population variously estimated
at from twenty to twenty-five tho,1.
sand, and increasing so RAPIDLY that
accommodations for incoming visitors
are hardly to be had for love or money,
tents are now put up and used as tenn.
porary lodging-houses by those who
cannot find other quarters, and are
gladly taken as places to lay heads
weary with search for better quar-
ters. Tents are no uncommon thing.
you know, Ill a new mining camp, but
IN city having population OF this
they look strange and out of place.
Things here have an aspect of
.newness,' owing to the recent tide
OF prosperity which has set in SO
strongly, which strikes locker on
very forcibly. The streets are as vet
unpaved, and dust, save in few of
the principal ones which are sprinkled, =,
abounds, or in case Of rain, muddy to
a most surprising and disgusting de-
s.ee. But to get them in order will
ne the next great work of the city au-
thor ties. An extensive system of
sewerage has just been completed
which speaks well for the enterprise Of
the town, and will tend to make it one
OF the best drained cities in the world,
lying as it does with every advantage
for first-class drainage. The fire de-
partment is volunteer, and like most
volunteer systems is characterized by
more zeal than discretion. Speakinp
OF fires, to-day was the first fire have
seen in the city, and that could hardly
be called fire, being checked in its
incipiency, and might have passed
unnoticed were it not for some of the
amusing incidents connected with it,
among which the most remarkable
and most amusing were the comments
and criticism of the lockers on at the
efforts OF the department. Here you
would perhaps see group OF two or
three from Mud Springs-I believe
that is Judge Rufus" old town, by
the way--and you might hear such re-
marks as: ooh, look at that feller
goin' up that ladder! He goes up like
the missin' link climbin' pole. You
ought to see Nobbly Bob go up lad
der: He could 60 up, you bet" Here
perhaps another group Of two or three
from Snakyput in old Missouri, and
they would have their comments:
" Why, whar's the water? Why don't
they turn her on? If our old COM
p'ny, the Turnp'nsquirts, was here,
we'd had that fire out by this time"
Here third group, with an excited
Yankee telling the way they did it at
Squantum Neck when Deacon Gooze-
ley's three-story tavern "was all
ablazin', gol darn it," While l
thought, if 1 didn't say it, that if the
old Rescues and Hooks and Knicks
had been here we'd have knocked
" h-ll's bells " out of that fire before
they got on a stream.
And SO it goes. We all think the
place We come from a little ahead of
all others, whether it is Mud Springs,
Snakyput, Squantum Neck or Char
coal Flat. guess it's better it should
be 80.
There are quite a number from the
Sageb-ush State here and many OF
them from your town of Eureka,
among whom l might name M. A.
Douthett, wife and son; w. S., Nc
Lellan and wife, d. F.. Baily, G. q.
Hubbard and son Charley, W. M.
Blaine. and others, perhaps, if |
could think OF them.
But you will think if l protract this
much longer have had bad attack
of cacoethes scribendi," so l will
close, merely adding if you think there
is anything in all this which would in
if not, consign it to the waste basket,
and in any event, yours truly.